The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of
Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin, on Sunday, in Kaduna, appealed to aggrieved
party members over the choice of Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa as the
party’s vice-presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
Jibrin advised that members should allow the party’s
presidential candidate, Atiku, and its chairman, Iyorcha Ayu to return to the
country.
In a statement in Kaduna on Sunday, he maintained that as
soon as the party chairman and its presidential candidate returned, the process
of reconciling all aggrieved members shall commence with Atiku Abubakar to head
the committee.
He listed the members of the committee as; PDP presidential
candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; PDP Vice Presidential Candidate and Governor
of Delta State, Chief Okowa; PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyochia Ayu; and
his NWC, PDP BOT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibril, Representative of BOT
membership, Current 13 PDP Governors, Former PDP Governors, Former PDP
Ministers and Some PDP Elders from Zones and States.
According to him, “this was in view of great concern and
great sense of feeling on the various recent comments coming from some of our
PDP members and some prominent Nigerians on the choice of Chief Okowa, the
Governor of Delta State as the Vice Presidential Candidate by the Presidential
Candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of our Party PDP, the biggest party not only in
Nigeria but the whole of Africa.”
He said all the comments and various submissions are very
normal in any political set-up in Nigeria today with PDP being the strongest
and most prominent party that has all potential to form government in 2023.
According to him, “We must come back to our senses by all
our members and all most responsible and respectful Nigerians by giving total
support to the party to enable it to form government by holding all political
positions in Nigeria in 2023.”
He said it’s very necessary that when Atiku and Ayu return
to Nigeria from abroad, a very important visit must be paid to Governor Nyesom
Wike of Rivers State.
He said it’s very important to note that Governor Wike is a
very responsible and very obedient member of the PDP who assisted tremendously
toward building the party into what it is today.
He said they must encourage Wike never to leave the party,
adding that “in light of the above, I want to appeal to all PDP members and
leaders to shun unorthodox comments aimed at reducing and running down the
party. We must come together and unite ourselves as earlier established by our
founding fathers.”
He urged party supporters to shun any bad comment aimed at
dividing them and be ready to forget and forgive ourselves by encouraging
Nigerians to continue supporting us and our party.
He further appealed to all current and former Governors, and
former Presidents of Nigeria not to add more fuel to the fire but to always try
to quench the fire from spreading.
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